Antonella holds a PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Trieste (Italy) where she also completed a 2-year post-doctoral research in Applied Cognitive Psychology. After 4-year industrial experience at the Advanced Technology and Research group of NCR Ltd (UK) as senior HCI researcher, her academic career included the University of Manchester (2004-2007 School of Informatics Lecturer; 2007-2009 Manchester Business School Senior Lecturer), the University of Trento (2009-2018 Associate Professor) and the University of Lincoln (2015-2018 Professor of Human-Computer Interaction). Antonella has a track record of successful social innovation projects, including the H2020 PieNews (p.i) and Acanto projects, the MIUR Infanzia Digitales and Citta’ Educante, and the FP7 Servface.